The thing I don't understand here is why they don't censor other sites that
also carry the image - as was brought up on the wiki, Amazon has the image,
and many stores that sell the album have the image. If Wikipedia's usage
is illegal, why isn't their usage illegal?
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Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:57 AM, David Monniaux
David.Monniaux@free.fr wrote:
>
>> It is actually true that some ISP have mistakenly blocked all accesses
>> to Wikimedia sites.
>>
>> We have received a complaint to that effect on OTRS, from a ISP
>> technician. It seems that their upstream provider screwed up their
>> redirection hacks (using BGP) and mistakenly propagated them to its clients.
>>
>
> I was aware of that. I didn't consider it the same.
>
> For those unaware of how this works: The participating ISPs
> re-announce one of Wikimedia's IPs in their own networks in order to
> hijack all the connections. Normally these reannouncments are not
> distributed outside of the providers network. But mistakes can be
> made. This is how, a few months ago, Pakistan managed to knock youtube
> off the internet.
>
> A single configuration glitch from one of these blocking ISPs may have
> the same effect.
>
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